Key details
- Current boat name
- Sparrow of Lade
- Boat class
- 7330
- Function
- Fishing and Hunting
- Type
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 5 / 16ft 5in
- Beam (m / ft)
- 1.63 / 5ft 4in
- Leeward
- Keel
- Masts
- 2 Wood
- Rig type
- Mizzen
- Propulsion
- Engine
Design and build
- Designer
- Lower & Sons
- Design date
- 1955
- Date of build
- 1955
- Place of build
- Newhaven, Sussex
Current status
- Present use
- Sailing
History
SPARROW OF LADE was the smallest elliptical-sterned boat ever built by Lowers and is therefore unique. In 1964 her original Villiers engine was replaced with a Petters AB 1 diesel. About the same time the sheer was built up by one strake (as were most Sussex boats of this type). She was fully restored in 2007-8 by a local shipwright who has a lifetime's experience of these craft. November 2008